 | John Stoddart - Scotland - 1801 - 386 pages
...intermedial notices, we throw away a precious year*." But the most pitiable state of mind is that man's, " who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, Tis all barren." Of such a one Sterne justly observes, that " he set out with the spleen and jaundice ; and every object... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - British - 1802 - 284 pages
...experiment has kept my senses and the best part of my blood awake^ and laid the gross to sleep. Beeraheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren — and so it is; and so...to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. I declare, said I, clapping my hands cheerily together, that was I in a desart, I would find out wherewith... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1803 - 502 pages
...pity the man who can travel from Dan to B:crfieb.., and cry, Tis all b?rren — and fo it is; and fo is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. I declare, faid I, clapping my hands cheerily together, that was I in a defert, I would £ud out wherewith... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1805 - 430 pages
...my blood, awake, and laid the gross to sleep. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Bcersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren and so it is; and so is all...to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. I declare, said I, clapping my hands cheerily together, that, was I in a desert, I would find out wherewith... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1810 - 292 pages
...my blood awake, and lakl the grass to, sleep. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Betrsheba, and cry, "Tis all barren — And so it is ; and so...world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it otters, I declare, said I, clapping my hands cheerily together, that were 1 in u desert, I would find... | |
 | John Robinson, Piomingo - National characteristics, American - 1810 - 328 pages
...left out. " I pity the man," says Sterne, " who can travel from " Dan to Beersheba, and cry, all is barren. And so it is; " and so is all the world to him, who will not cultivate " the fruit it offers." To this observation of Sterne some poetic genius has affixed a few lines which display... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1813 - 310 pages
...the experiment has kept my senses and the best part of my blood awake, and laid the gross to sleep. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba,...to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. I declare, said I, clapping my hands cheerily together, that was I in a desert, I would find out wherewith... | |
 | 1814 - 774 pages
...of the question when the at/Ioj -••?* of n dignified ecclesiastic' is both proof and argument. ' I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, It is barren.' And surely, a deficiency of benevolent feeling, as well as of enlightened and correct... | |
 | 1815 - 876 pages
...world, as to knowledge, truth and virtue. The preacher adopts the exclamation of " an eloquent writer, ' I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and say it is all a desert.' " • Happy they, who like him, are able from the strength of their minds,... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1815 - 880 pages
...world, as to knowledge, truth and virtue. The preacher adopts the exclamation of " an eloquent writer, ' I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and say it is all a desert.' " * Happy they, who like him, are able from the strength of their minds, the... | |
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I pity the man who can travel from Dan. to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren and so it is; and so is all the world to him, who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. 
